Example Sentences

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“From Hitler’s point of view, they were sabotaging, and therefore he hated them.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 7, 2023

The same dynamic existed in Iraq, he said: though it was opponents of the government who were sabotaging the electrical grid, many Iraqis blamed the U.S.-backed government for failing to restore it.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

However, the Gaineses were sabotaging her goal of reducing her sugar consumption.

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019

The Housewives were going to think the producers were sabotaging them.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017

But the dominant worker and soldier did not believe them; it was firmly fixed in the popular mind that the employees were sabotaging, starving the Army, starving the people….

From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John